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On Wednesday, July 15th, at 3:00pm ET, IPF hosted a conference call discussion with Robert Einhorn, former State Department special advisor on nonproliferation and arms control (2009-2013), and currently a fellow at The Brookings Institution, on the recent Iran agreement.

It is time to focus on solutions: develop discrete, reliable back channels between the two governments; regain mutual trust, and quickly establish quiet exchanges to address these four immediate issues: preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, maintaining Israel’s qualitative military superiority, preserving the two-state solution and sustaining the special US-Israel relationship. Both countries will gain.

We should never hesitate to condemn anti-Semitism, whether it is the traditional version directed at Jews or the newer version targeting Israel’s legitimacy. But we also have to be very careful about distinguishing Israel-related anti-Semitism from criticisms of Israeli policies.

For years, we tended to paper over a fundamental policy difference between Israel and the United States. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu long has talked about the need to dismantle fully Iran’s nuclear infrastructure that he describes as constituting an existential threat to Israel, while President Obama’s language consistently called for preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

On Wednesday, July 15th, at 3:00pm ET, IPF hosted a conference call discussion with Robert Einhorn, former State Department special advisor on nonproliferation and arms control (2009-2013), and currently a fellow at The Brookings Institution, on the recent Iran agreement.

Israel Policy Forum condemns the outrageous personal smear attacking National Security Advisor Susan Rice for having a “blind spot” for "genocide” in the full-page ad published in The New York Times on Saturday.